Show news from our boys in the armed service husband of local woman serving in philippines with the infantry division in the philippines private chester G muir son of mr and mrs george W muir of beaver was recently assigned to the veteran and famed 3 32 red arrow arriol division now fighting on luzon in service since january 1944 muir trained at camp wolters welters te texas before shipping to the philippines his wife the former norms norma and their children douglas and roger live in Pa carowan parowan Paro rowan wian he has a brother seaman robert muir serving in the navy during the past several weeks we ke have received several letters from boys from here and in paragonah Para Plara gonah who are serving in the armed forces most of them are written to express their thanks and happiness in being lable able to get the times and express I 1 appreciation to the people who are making it possible for the paper to go to them but there are interesting bits of news in all of them and we are go mg ing to paw pass some of it on to our readers as follows howard staff sergeant howard writes from germany and wonders how we are getting along back home and especially what we do for excitement cit ement with most of our young people away from home and in the service of 0 uncle sam he adds however that he would like to be here and enjoy some of the good old parowan carowan quietness he stated that where he wes was when the letter was written was fairly quiet but that there was more mud there than we have ever had had here altogether he had received six copies of the times that day and although they were back numbers all were news and very interesting to him as any news from home is welcome at any time he had also received letters from morris bernarr stubbs chester ward his kid brother and sheldon clark wh which ih made him feel all the better belter inclosing he said that he would be glad to set foot back in the U S and think he would ever worry about going to europe again rollin L moore rollin L moore radioman ac writes from the the atlantic ocean as follows for quite some gome time now I 1 have been going to write you but kept putting it off until my conscience finally got the best of me for the past year I 1 have been receiving the times at regular intervals or each time we came into a US port upon each arrival I 1 receive all the way from one to fifteen copies and let me tell you they are greatly appreciated although quite of few of the people mentioned in in your columns are new to me mainly because of new people moving into town and the girls getting married whereby they use their married names which I 1 do not recognize since going aboard ship in san francisco I 1 have been stationed on the same destroyer for the past year and a half seeing most of the pacific and at present operating in the atlantic I 1 am a radioman and find my work very interesting and as far as radar n maintenance nance is concerned very technical quite by accident I 1 have run onto two fellows from home while in my travels they were jim whitney in sidney australia and tomy abbott fin dri boston massachusetts both were us as surprised to see me as I 1 was them tend and although I 1 able to talk to tio them very long it was really good to see some one from home again let me say I 1 greatly appreciate preci ate getting the times mainly because it curtains news of the people 1 I grew up with and my friends at home also it is the only way we have of keeping track of our buddies in the other branches of the in closing I 1 want to thank th good people of parowan carowan Pa rowan cedar city Y and ther other communities of the county for making possible for the boys to get the home town papers I 1 know of no beter morale builder you could send to us howard A robi robinson from hot springs arkansas howard d A robinson writes as follows this ills is just a note to let you know that my address has changed again and that I 1 sure look forward to getting the paper from the old home town I 1 want to thank you people at home for making it possible for me to get the paper for it means a lot to me as I 1 have a lot of time to read now for I 1 am in the h hospital i I 1 first went into the hospital on december ber 9 and I 1 gotten out up to this time and now I 1 am in a general hospital and I 1 dont know when I 1 will get out tor for I 1 have a lot of treatments yet to take I 1 am sure looking forward to coming black back home again and am hoping that it wont be long before I 1 am able to doso boso shelby M bentley from the army air field at san antonio texas air cadet shelby bentley writes to us as follows I 1 thought I 1 would drop you people a note and thank you for sending the times to me so regularly I 1 have teen been receiving it each week and really enjoy getting the home town paper I 1 have finished preflight pre pe flight and am now taking a post graduate course while waiting to go to primary flight trail training ning how soon I 1 will go to that phase I 1 dont know it seems they have a lot loft of cadets cabets ready and not enough schools open for them I 1 saw dan evans just before he left for radio school it certainly was good to see some one from home he is the first fello fellow w I 1 have met since coming into the s service ervice he left before I 1 got another chance to see min him but I 1 had a good visit with him and his wife there are quite a few people here from utah and I 1 have met a lot of them in church two sundays ago I 1 met homer boardman from para gonah in church I 1 was quite pleas anly surprised and enjoyed my v visit is with him they have a nice nice branch of the church here and the members certainly are gran grandino grand dito to the service servi ice men I 1 must close for now thanks again for keeping the times coming to me arden ardell hy healt hyalt all mrs F W hyatt sent the following letter which she received from her son arden ardell up to us with the request that we publish it and this we are very happy to do at this time lime it is as follows dearest mother and dad the movie is just over and I 1 have another opportunity to write you before time tor for the next radio watch it turned out to be a pretty good picture it was called her cardboard lover with robert taylor and norma shearer it seems like I 1 have had quite a time trying to do any letter writing lately I 1 should have tried to write ia a little more often than I 1 have in I 1 the past month I 1 know you must have written quite often as you always do but something seems to have happened tot to our mail so I 1 have not received any left letters ers for quite some time some of the boys are just starting to get a few letters now so maybe ill be getting some in a day or so I 1 guess you are getting pretty tired of hearing me complain when I 1 dont get mail I 1 know I 1 but that is about the only thing I 1 have to look forward to so I 1 am always rather concerned about it there was a notice posted on the bulletin board yesterday to the effect that some of the censorship regulations ions will not longer be in effect they are still rather strict but we will be able to tell of places we have been and some of OUT our personal experiences perien ces after a waiting period ot of thirty days some things though I 1 think it best not to mention as you do not know but what it might be something of a military nature and could very easy get you into trouble when I 1 left pearl harbor the first time have been back once since it il was aboard a small carrier we arrived in the marshall islands and our sea draft was put ashore on ma M juro island it was one of the few islands that was not all torn tom up by naval bombardment which we now occupy it is really a pretty island and we had lots of fun swimming ing eating coconuts and visiting various parts of the island until they decided we had had enough fun and put us to work we were there for two weeks until we were put back aboard another ship which took us to the last island in the marshalls marchalls Mar group taken by our forces it was and there was hardly a tree left idt standing and a spot of earth left unturned after the bombardment bar dment our ships and planes gave 0 of I 1 course cours e when we arrived there it was weeks after and everything was being put back in shape and new buildings were already built I 1 came aboard ship soon after we arrived at and of course here I 1 have been for a good long time now I 1 been down under to australia and new guinea yet but have been to almost all of the other islands is we have taken from the japs I 1 could very easily understand why the japs wanted the philippines after I 1 saw them they would have really been a rich prize for them if they could have held on to them but they rather underestimated the united states we arrived at leyte around the ath of january we were only there a couple of days and then joined a huge convoy that was headed for lingayen gulf on luzon the first convoy and troops had just landed there three days be abre our departure from leyte our destination though was mindora which lies very close to luzon on the way up a large merchant ship carrying troops and supplies had trouble with its motors and had to drop out of the convoy our ship was ordered back to either tow her back to leyte or if possible catch up with the convoy by the time we were under way with her in tow we were about 3 or 4 hours behind the convoy I 1 think all the ships doubted that we could catch up v them towing a ship that large and as heavily loaded as it was but our boat came through with flying colors yes sir we caught them and stayed with them until their engineers got the motors working again and it could proceed under its own power it much longer until a large fleet had the same trouble and again our ship went to the rescue and brought her back to the convoy when we arrived at ait mindoro we left the convoy and proceeded with the salvage work we had been assigned to this consisted of pulling grounded ships off the beach and attempting to put out a fire on a burning oil tanker taker which had been hit and set afire in an air raid a day or two previous we had the fire put out once alter after pouring thousands of gallons of water vater on her it took us almost a full day to put it out as it was blazing from bow to stern when we ive first started in A working party had to cut the anchor chains with torches as she was anchored when hit then we were to tow her out of the harbor where she was a fire hazard hazara we make quite the right approach when we went alongside to hook on the towing wire and was not in the right position so we barked off about 70 feet well the good lord must have been with us when we made that last move because we no more than got clear and the whole ship blew up I 1 thought the blast was going to shake our ship apart but I 1 guess she was a little littie too rugged the blast threw burning oil over a large area of the harbor and scattered the ship hither and yon so we got the hell away bom it fast boy that was too close for comfort well I 1 had better put an end to my sea stories for now hope you are all well give my love to everyone and tell them im in the pink I 1 will write again soon your son DELL PS the longest I 1 have been out to sea without seeing land was 30 days we were towing a big dry dock lyle murphy lyle murphy writes from fort benning georgia where he is training for the paratroops as follows dear claude As others of the service ment have done I 1 am taking time to write and thank the people at home for seeing that I 1 get the parowan carowan times along with letters from home it has been my greatest comforter and friend ive been in fort benning only a week and I 1 hope the next three prove to be as interesting as the first one has been after 15 weeks basic train training inc I 1 volunteered for the paratroops and passed all physical requirements instead Insi tead of going home after 15 weeks in camp fannin tex as ralph marsden did ill get my furlough in three weeks ill get my silver wings after my ath jump and then I 1 should go home ill certainly be glad to get back and see if par owan has changed any and to meet again as many of my old schoolmates as possible I 1 must close now wishing everyone good luck |